This series examines how to and how not to build cities.
The car-centric suburban growth is simply unsustainable
"The Netherlands may have the best city designs in the world"
"The American system of growth and development is fundamentally broken and it has guranteed the decline of American cities"
Freedom on Wheels
"For centuries cities were designed so that everyone had what they needed within walking distance"
Public spaces were designed like rooms
"These are the kind of places Americans go to on vacation and return home to their despressingly soul-crushingly dystopian car dependent suburbs"
"Car-centric suburbia is not just sucking the soul out of its inhabitants - it's making them poorer as well"
The Growth Ponzi Scheme
"American cities do not need to sprawl and before WW2 they weren't"
"American pattern of development builds places that do not financially support themselves"
"American style suburbia is dependent on growth to stay financially solvent - the moment these cities stop growing because of a financial crisis, a radical change in the job market or any one of a number of other factors - everything starts to fall apart"
"Car-centric sprawl is horrendeously expensive"
"Debt, lots and lots and lots of debt"
The suburban experiment became so central to the American Psychology
The car-centric suburban growth is simply unsustainable
"The Netherlands may have the best city designs in the world"
"The American system of growth and development is fundamentally broken and it has guranteed the decline of American cities"
Freedom on Wheels
"For centuries cities were designed so that everyone had what they needed within walking distance"
Public spaces were designed like rooms
"These are the kind of places Americans go to on vacation and return home to their despressingly soul-crushingly dystopian car dependent suburbs"
"Car-centric suburbia is not just sucking the soul out of its inhabitants - it's making them poorer as well"
The Growth Ponzi Scheme
"American cities do not need to sprawl and before WW2 they weren't"
"American pattern of development builds places that do not financially support themselves"
"American style suburbia is dependent on growth to stay financially solvent - the moment these cities stop growing because of a financial crisis, a radical change in the job market or any one of a number of other factors - everything starts to fall apart"
"Car-centric sprawl is horrendeously expensive"
"Debt, lots and lots and lots of debt"
The suburban experiment became so central to the American Psychology
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